Large-sized commercial vehicles such as trucks and buses generally are large bluff bodies that do not have an ideal aerodynamic shape. Especially, large size buses having a bluff-based body run accompanied by a strong wake, causing a serious aerodynamic drag at high speed cruising. In this study, a numerical simulation has been carried out for three-dimensional turbulent flows around a bluff-based bus-like body and actual bus body. The first step of this study is to verify the effectiveness of the CFD analysis. In the second step, to reduce the drag of the actual bus model, parameter studies are performed with attention to effective utilisation of the rear-spoiler equipped at the roof-end of upper body. From the results of this study, it is clear that the adoption of RNG k-epsilon turbulence model and nonlinear quadratic turbulence model with the second order accurate discretisation scheme predicts, fairly well, the aerodynamic coefficients. The results also show that the aerodynamic drag for a commercial bus can be reduced by 14% with the use of a drag reduction device.
Aerodynamic simulation on the drag reduction device of a large-sized bus model
International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems (IJHVS) (Internet) ; 12 , 3 ; 207-224
2005
18 Seiten, 11 Bilder, 8 Tabellen, 11 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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